How about putting a rider into the next law-enforcement block-grant legislation coming out of Congress making any state with a law forbidding the recording of public officials engaged in their public duties (executive sessions of deliberative bodies and judges in chambers excluded) ineligible for any money?
No exclusions. What do the judges have to hide?
The reason for that exclusion in my proposal is that often discussions in camera involve sensitive information about litigant or defendants. I’m not proposing that exception to protect judges, but those they deal with.